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Storytelling for User Experience Design

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A book in progress by Kevin Brooks & Whitney Quesenbery. Publisher: Rosenfeld Media. Anticipated publication date: 2009

We all tell stories. It's one of the most natural ways to share information, as old as the human race. This book is not about a new technique, but how to use something we already know in a new way. Stories help us gather and communicate user research, put a human face on analytic data, communicate design ideas, encourage collaboration and innovation, and create a sense of shared history and purpose. This book looks across the full spectrum of user experience design to discover when and how to use stories to improve our products. Whether you are a researcher, designer, analyst or manager, you will find ideas and techniques you can put to use in your practice.

If you...

  • Need to share research and design insights in a compelling and effective way
  • Struggle to communicate the meaning of a large body of data in a way that everyone just "gets"
  • Want to explore a new, innovative idea, and imagine its future

... this book can help you, by showing you how and when to choose, create and use stories.

“Storytelling for User Experience Design” Blog

A storied career

Posted by Whitney Quesenbery on June 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

Kathy Hansen's blog, A Storied Career, has links to all things about organizational storytelling. Her topics range from "storytelling and change" to "storytelling and social media" to a wonderful collection of quotations about stories and storytelling.

And, she interviews story practitioners on how they apply storytelling to their own work. I was tickled to be one of those practitioners and to find myself in the company of people like Annette Simmons (author of The Story Factor and Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins).

- Whitney

UX Book Salon at UPA 2009 in Portland

Posted by Whitney Quesenbery on June 3, 2009

Want to talk about storytelling? We always do, so we're taking an hour out of the UPA conference in Portland to invite folks to a UX Book Salon on Thursday morning at 8:30.

We're looking forward to a lively conversation about how we use stories in our practice. Personas, presentations, or analysing participants. What works? What doesn't? What have you been dying to try? Bring your stories and lets compare our experiences.

Contact Lou or Whitney at the conference for details of where to meet.
Or follow the conversation @rosenfeldmedia on Twitter

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